Also, just found this article from Phil Plait, the 'Bad Astronomer' written earlier in June: are we headed for a new ice age? Well worth a read. And I was pleased he noted that the LIA began long before the Maunder Minimum!

The idea of this blog is to produce a regular round up of global weather and related news stories which then acts as an archive. Some links may be lost in time but by searching the original headline on Google it should be possible to find related stories. Additionally, it gives me somewhere to add my own thoughts on some stories, as the mood takes me.